John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
I really want as many people as possible to relate to something, without compromising or dumbing down.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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Please don't compare the nature and authenticity of 'Queer Eye' to 'The Bachelor.'
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I was living in Paris for, like, a year and a half, and I couldn't speak French, so it was just hard to get a baguette or a pastry or whatever. All the stores close at 6 o'clock, and they're not very into hospitality, so it's not a convenient city. It's so pretty, though, but I was raised in Tokyo, so it was hard to understand.
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I think we have too much history. It’s not so important. I think people should have fun and enjoy their own time. I haven’t done much, so why should I waste people’s memory?'
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I really want as many people as possible to relate to something, without compromising or dumbing down.
